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Not Even In Your Wildest Dreams: The Realities Of A Forced Weeding Project, Marlene M. Bishop, Rebecca Bealer

Library Faculty Publications

2024 South Central Chapter / Medical Library Association (SCC/MLA) Annual Meeting, Dallas, October 25-29, 2024

Navigating Library Services: Challenges And Opportunities In Moving Music And Dance Collections During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Michael J. Duffy Iv

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the University Libraries at Western Michigan University closed the Harper C. Maybee Music and Dance Library, and moved its collections to Waldo Library, the main library on campus. This decision was the result of budget cuts at Western Michigan University during the pandemic, and the University Libraries’ response to operate within our budget by consolidating services and collection spaces. The Maybee Music and Dance Library was closed, along with the rest of the campus libraries, in March 2020. The music and dance collections were moved between March and May of 2021,after which they were available to …

Crazy Train: Managing An Ir During Transition, Lora Lennertz, Jessica Cabrera-Sarduy

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

Crazy, but that’s how it goes! The University of Arkansas’ organizational structure for the institutional repository and other publishing ventures underwent significant changes with the creation of a new department in July 2023, the resignation of the IR coordinator who had been the sole developer of the IR since its inception, the move of IR supervision to the department head in January 2024, and the hiring of a new IR coordinator in July 2024. We realized with the resignation of our coordinator that policy decisions, changes in template assignments, assigning metadata, and even the use of external forms and software …

Maintaining Diverse Collections In The Face Of Book Challenges, Amanda Walch, Zeineb Yousif

Librarian Posters and Presentations

In recent years, there has been a surge of attempts to censor library books across America, leading to record numbers of challenges in 2022 and 2023. According to ALA, in 2023 titles representing the voices and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals made up 47% of those targeted in censorship attempts. These represent the tip of the iceberg as documented book challenges do not include self-censorship on the part of publishers (such as Scholastic's controversial attempt to segregate diverse titles in 2023) or by librarians making purchasing decisions in hostile environments. The EDI Committee will be discussing censorship from …

Government Documents Voter Registration Display October 2024, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Elections/Voting

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

A Century Of Scholarship: University Of Arkansas School Of Law Faculty Scholarship 1924–2023, Steven R. Probst

Arkansas Scholarly Editions

Steven R. Probst’s bibliography A Century of Scholarship: University of Arkansas School of Law Faculty Scholarship 1924–2023 marks an important anniversary: the 2024 centennial of the U of A School of Law. To honor this occasion, Probst has assembled, through extensive archival research, the list of publications that U of A law faculty have authored over the course of the school’s hundred-year history. A Century of Scholarship is a testament to the invaluable scholarly contributions of these extraordinary thinkers who have shaped our legal landscape.

Review Of Rethinking Institutional Repositories: Innovations In Management, Collections, And Inclusion, Amy B. Parsons

Faculty Bibliography

A review of Cromwell, J., ed., Rethinking institutional repositories: Innovations in management, collections, and inclusion. Chicago, Illinois: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023.

Academic Commons Annual Report (2023-2024), Elizabeth D'Angel

Annual Reports & Administrative Documents

Contents

• Recap of the Year
• Jefferson Libraries
• Archives & Collections
• Educational Technologies & Instructional Design
• Professional Communication
• Media Services: Audio Visual, Graphics, Photography & Video
• Staff Highlights

Check out the Adobe Express website for the Annual Report 2023-2024.

Bibliography For "Ai: The Next Chapter Display", Arianna Tillman, Isabella Piechota

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography created to support a display about artificial intelligence at the Leatherby Libraries during Fall 2024 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.

Bibliography For "Open Access Week Display", Arianna Tillman, Isabella Piechota, Annikah Carpio

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography created to support a display about Open Access Week at the Leatherby Libraries during October 2024 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.

Give2history: Secure The Past, Sandra Yates

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

2024 Give2History: Adopt a Box in October. What does it mean to Adopt a Box? It cost roughly $50 to preserve the historical materials within a single unprocessed. Your donation provides us enough funds to purchase preservation supplies for this box. That includes a new acid-free archival box and all the folders, buffered paper, and polyester document/photograph preservers needed to preserve the materials in that box.

Food Science Affiliated Publications, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Snapshot Of The Research Publications, Jeremy J. Smith, Lutishoor Salisbury

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report provides a snapshot of the research publications for authors affiliated with the Food Science department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, for the period 2018-2023. It includes publications by material type; co-author characteristics; ranking of journals according to journal citation reports.

Electronic Resources Updates - 2024 Q3, Melanie Mcgurr, Gregg Harris

Electronic Resources Quarterly Updates

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Feasibility Of Creating A Non-Profit And Nongovernmental Organization Cybersecurity Incident Dataset Repository Using Osint, Stanley Mierzwa, Iassen Christov

Center for Cybersecurity

Organizations of all types are prone to cybersecurity and information security attacks. Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are not exempt from using information technology solutions and, thus, have been the recipient victims of cyber attackers. There exist many areas and venues where data are collected to report back annually on the status and numbers of cybersecurity attacks against many sectors of our society. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) catalogs sixteen critical sectors that are considered vital to the United States. However, finding where the NPO and NGO community should reside with …

Serials Spoken Here (The Acquisitions Institute At Timberline Lodge, 2024), Margaret Puentes

Library Articles and Research

The downloadable file on this page is one section of an article which summarizes four sessions of The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge held May 19–22, 2024: special considerations for indigenous materials, acquisitions models for indigenous audiovisual media, affordable course materials, and readiness for resource challenges. It does not contain the whole article, just the section written by Margaret Puentes.

Full article abstract:

"This quarter’s column has reports from the 2024 NASIG 39^th Annual Conference held June 3–7, 2024 in Spokane, WA and The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge held May 19–22, 2024. Topics from NASIG include using ChatGPT …

Digital Commons Exhibits, Alice Sherwood

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

Elsevier has recently highlighted The TMC Library’s Digital Commons Exhibits as one of their “Current DC Exhibit Customers” featured on their Digital Commons Exhibits page. Since 2023, The TMC Library started to add Digital Commons Exhibits to this online collection available to users worldwide. Currently there are 8 regular exhibits, as well as a scrolling exhibit available featuring a few of the following: Historical A/V, Houston’s Fight Against Tuberculosis and Christmas Seals (1911-1980s) and The History of the Texas Medical Center Library: From 1915 to Present.

Radiology Resources Libguide, Chad Metz

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

Are you looking for radiology resources but you are not sure where to start?

Check out the new Radiology Resources LibGuide. You will find the links to books, journals, databases that include radiology information, as well as links to radiology organizations like the Texas Radiological Society and more.

Information Access For Everyone: Web Accessibility In The Library, James M. Day, Cody Michaels

Publications

The first principle of the American Library Association’s Code of Ethics reads as follows: “We provide the highest level of service to all library users through appropriate and usefully organized resources; equitable service policies; equitable access; and accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests.”¹

Selected U.S. Government Statistical Agencies And Their Data, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides introductory and detailed overview of U.S. Government agencies statistics. Includes examples of how an individual U.S. law authorizes government agencies to compile statistics for particular congressional committees and the general public. Statistics cover topics such as demography, defense, foreign assistance, economic growth, criminal justice, energy, Social Security, and Medicare.

Using Oclc Greenglass For Serials For A Serials Analysis And Weeding Project In An Academic Library, Janice G. Schuster, Ray Stein, Sarah Devito Thompson

Library Faculty and Staff papers

The Phillips Memorial Library at Providence College used OCLC’s GreenGlass for Serials tool to facilitate an extensive weeding of the bound periodicals collection. This article covers the project’s goals, planning, implementation, results, and evaluation. It also gives future plans for weeding our closed runs periodical collection.